Just a Matter of Incentive

Security is being heightened along the southern U.S. border because of a threat that warring Mexican cartels may send hit men into the United States, authorities said Monday.

With firearms they bought at US gun shows, no doubt.

Hey, isn't it interesting how resources can be allocated when the feds want to?

A Credible Threat

Authorities are investigating whether a man arrested with rifles, ammunition and drugs in his truck made statements threatening Barack Obama, but emphasize he never posed a "credible threat" to the candidate or the Democratic National Convention.

Of course it was. Not to The Lightworker, to us.

Those who make up their minds from sound bites now have further media prompting to fear white men with scoped rifles, all spotlighted elements of the original report.

Forget that Nazis are socialists. Forget that we sober-minded patriots don't traffic in meth. Forget that freedom activists work toward Liberty for all human beings, not just those who share something as ridiculous as similar melanin concentrations.

What we have here are made-to-order SPLC white supremacist militia kooks, that is, the brush they wish to tar gun owners with. Conveniently outed by those aware of their activities at just the right time...

Boogedy-boogedy!

[Via Plug Nickel Times]

We're the Only Ones Domesticated Enough

The Putnam Sheriff's Department's domestic violence officer was arrested Friday night on a charge of domestic assault.

Good grief. Can it get more ironic?

So does this mean she'll be the "Only One" not voting for Bob Barr?

[Via Carl S]

One Thing You Can't Hide...

The database used to produce the government's terror watch lists is "crippled by technical flaws," according to the chairman of a House technology oversight subcommittee—and the system designed to replace it may be even worse.

That may explain why the gunbashers want to use it to deny gun purchases...

Mr. Lennon? Your cue...

[Via John Hardin]

Not Exactly Pen Pals

Kent McManigal and NRA trade letters.

"Change"

Oh, sorry--wrong democrat...

Appleseeding

Breda tells us what it's like.

And Part 2 is up.

Six of One...

...half-a-dozen of another.



Right, Professor Quigley?

What Ken Allows

Harris County District Attorney Ken Magidson has asked the state's top lawyer if he can legally stop his assistants from taking handguns into courtrooms despite a new law removing most restrictions on where prosecutors with gun licenses can carry their weapons.

I've worked many jobs over the years. I've never wanted one badly enough that I would trade in my self-respect for it. You can get another job. Once you hand in your dignity, especially if you allow yourself to be cowed into making a habit of it, it's almost impossible to get it back.

It's my permanent eyes staring back at me in the mirror, not my temporary employer's. My sons depend on me to show them how to be men. My greatest fear is that I'll let them down on that, and that's my greatest motivator not to.

Once things cross the line from professional to personal, I take it that way and react accordingly. I have been known to tell bosses throwing tantrums that their tone doesn't work with me--that they'd better go home and practice it on their dog some more until they get it right.

What could be more personal than being told by some arrogant usurper that I must come to him for permission to be a man?

Why anyone would tell this control freak anything other than the numerous ways he can go stuff himself is beyond me. But think about how dangerous broken prosecutors working for him on such a leash would be to those they had power over.

Offhand, I'd say we're witnessing a manifestation of fear.

They say most bullies are picked on themselves. It's telling how many gravitate toward government jobs.

Oh, and one other thing, Magidson: You aren't the employer. But representing yourself that way is at least consistent with the presumptuous arrogance with which you define yourself.

[Via Lane]

Seventh Inning Stretch for the Heirs of Liberty

A Connecticut youth baseball team with a phenomenal 9-year-old pitcher has been disqualified because its team is too good.

Excellence is disruptive, disturbing, frightening. What we really want is to be nurturing.

Adults act like children. Real people, like the ironically named Peter Noble, have assumed the role of Handicapper General.

Is it any wonder such as these cling to magic wish words like "hope" and "change," or alternately, "experience," closing their eyes and wishing, instead of assuming the burdens of free people?

Why would rougher men respect invertebrates like these?

UPDATE: Cool! Thanks, HardCorps.

We're the Only Ones Double-Dipping Enough

40 Cops Accused of Double Dipping

Those officers may have worked their city jobs while simultaneously working their private jobs.

40 in one department sounds like more than a few, "Only One" bad apple-wise. Oh well, I'm sure this doesn't reflect a more widespread attitude that rules can be circumvented for personal reasons--aren't you?

Click on title for video.

[Via Lane]

Gun Rights on Trial

The saving grace in Heller is that the unconstitutional verbiage in Justice Scalia’s majority opinion constitutes what lawyers call dicta — expressions extraneous to the issue presented to the court for decision, and therefore without legal force as “precedent.” Heller did not involve the possession of an M-16, or who might be disqualified from possessing firearms, or “gun-free zones,” or any statutes providing for “gun control” other than a few in the District of Columbia. Nonetheless, anti-gun legislators, politicians, special-interest groups, and media in every bastion of “gun-control” irrationality and fanaticism are already attempting to exploit the bare language, whatever its lack of legal effect, in new plots to disarm “the people.”

Edwin Vieira, Jr. speaks with credibility. We would do well to pay heed.

[Via Ron W]

This Day in History: August 26

The Rhode Island Assembly resolves to have their delegates to the next Continental Congress ask if they may build a fleet of ships at Continental expense "for the protection of these colonies."